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Thoughts on Dragonite?
I am thinking of using Dragonite as a sort of way to help cover some of the types of coverage I am lacking. I know my pokemon are no where near finished, but I got my butt handed to me, an almost complete team wipe from a buddy of mine when he used his dragon dance Gyarados. I had nothing to actually deal super effective damage against him and he even outsped my mega beedrill my fastest pokemon and except my Mimikyu, 1HKO'ed my whole team. Also had nothing at that time to deal with water types. No grass or lightning which I will be fixing in my team as well. But what do you think of this?
I am thinking something like Dragonite: Moves: Dragon Dance Thunder Punch Fire Punch Stone Edge Item: Life Orb Ability: Intimidate or Multiscale Nature: Jolly EVs 252 Atk 4 Def 252 SPD |
Dragonite can definitely be a devastating sweeper though i'm not so sure the set you're thinking is your best bet, especially since you aren't using any kind of STAB
Here are a couple sets that I've used successfully: Dragonite @ Weakness Policy Ability: Multiscale EVs: 40 Atk / 252 SpA / 216 Spe Mild Nature - Agility - Ice Beam - Flamethrower - Dragon Claw Dragonite @ Lum Berry Ability: Multiscale EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Dragon Dance - Dragon Claw - Iron Head/Earthquake/Stone Edge - Thunder Punch/Fire Punch/Ice Punch Both of these sets allow for mid-late game sweeping power and still cover a lot of weaknesses you may have. And in the case of the DD set, the lum berry guarantees you safe from one burn which effectively ruins the set and can allow you the opening you need to get a DD up and sweep from there |
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Anyway, Dragonite is decent, but not outstanding, in OU, because its Dragon Dance sets face stiff competition with Zygarde, which has access to Thousand Arrows as a spammable STAB. There are two Z Crystal Dragon Dance sets that Dragonite can use: one uses Supersonic Skystrike to bust past Pokemon like Therian Landorus, while the other uses Gigavolt Havoc to lure in Celesteela and Tapu Fini and break them in half: -Dragon Dance -Fly -Fire Punch/Earthquake -Extreme Speed Nature: Adamant EVs: 252 Atk/4 Def/252 Spe Item: Flynium Z Ability: Multiscale or -Dragon Dance -Dragon Claw -Thunder Punch -Fire Punch Nature: Jolly EVs: 252 Atk/4 Def/252 Spe Item: Electrium Z Ability: Multiscale Or Dragonite can run the standard Dragon Dance set that it used in Gen VI if a Z Crystal is already taken or wants to have (semi)-reliable STAB and Celesteela or Tapu Fini can be dealt with: -Dragon Dance -Outrage/Dragon Claw -Earthquake -Extreme Speed/Fire Punch/Fly Nature: Adamant/Jolly EVs: 252 Atk/4 Def/252 Spe Item: Lum Berry/Dragonium Z/Flynium Z Ability: Multiscale |
Thanks. The problem is, Since G1, I have always outlawed myself from using anything legendary, even if its a weak legendary. So Zygard and Celebi or whatever OU or even UU legs that might be out there are ones I never ever use.
It's really a matter of principle to me. I just think it looks down right terrible and makes a person too much of a noob if they use them. I like that second set you posted there. I might go with that one. As for Salamance, I just don't like how it looks. I think he looks stupid. Which is why I refuse to use him. I choose my pokemon based on two factors. 1. Do I think they look cool ( I have impossibly high standards) 2. Are they going to be strong enough. Basically this is why I am using the mega beedrill, I scoured 3 different Lists for what qualifies as OU Tier and there are only 4 pokemon that satisfy these two points. Dragonite is something that only looks "kind of" cool to me. I think he is too cartoony and doesn't look menacing and dragon enough. Salamance has really stupid wings and the wrong colors. He should had been black and a much darker red, not that other colors. Am I poke Shallow? |
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Legendary status doesn't necessarily mean that the Pokemon is automatically good in competitive play. I use Articuno and Regigigas as frequent examples of legendaries that fall flat in competitive, the former for having a bad defensive typing and the latter for having a very crippling ability. |
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